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In early 2012 my partner, Bruce Geisler, and I were preparing to completely re-design the SoulGrowth.org site. He took an extended vacation from teaching at the University of Massachusetts and rented a small vacation rental about a mile from our home on Kauai, for a few months.

At one of our first meetings I said: If we’re going to help people figure out how to pursue their own Soul’s growth . . . then we have to figure out just exactly what that means ! I showed him a little treatise that I had written for the original Soul Growth site, which I had called “Some Light on Your Path”. It was based on “Our Aim” that Father Yod had given us in 1973. I told him that I had recently reviewed my words and I felt it was about the best I could do but – since he has spent his life studying most “Spiritual Paths” – I wanted him to analyze my words – and all of his knowledge – and come back to me, in two weeks, with his best suggestion as to what he thought we should use to clarify the path to Soul Growth.

We didn’t discuss it any more. I didn’t want to prejudice him at all. At the appointed time – two weeks later – I asked him if he had any definitive thoughts on the matter. He stood up and started walking around the beautiful little vacation cottage where we were meeting on the North Shore of Kauai. He pontificated for awhile and then he finally said that he thought the absolute best way to explain Soul Growth would be to use Father’s “Our Aim”. I was so blown out that I was almost in tears ! He had reached the same conclusion I had – 6 years later.

He went on to say that he thought we could come up with a better name for it. He has a remarkable ability to pull great names and descriptions out of the ethers. I reminded him that our dearly departed Jacob had taught Our Aim and he had called it “The Dance of the Pearl” (Purify, Elevate, Refine and Liberate).

He immediately said: How about “The Path of the Pearl”. And that is where the name of this beautiful book that we co-wrote came from. We published it September 17, 2015 – do you know that date ?

This is how we describe our book: The Path of The Pearl does not replace your current “Path” . . . Think of it as a powerful tool to aid you on your own, personal Journey.If you would like to learn – or review – an inspiring overall message – blended with great wisdom and many powerful quotes – this is a great tool. I am very proud of this book and hope you will enjoy it and share it.

The Source Foundation was founded with very aspirational goals. Some would say incurably romantic. : - )

FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT 3 / 13 / 2016

Aloha:

We hope you are well and we hope you experience health, wealth, happiness and success in all your endeavors.

The Source Foundation has been dissolved – as a Hawaii Corporation – and as a business entity .

This site - and much of our work - will contnue. But it will no longer be under the auspices of the Source Foundation.

We did not shut down the Foundation because we consider it a failure. Indeed, we are honored and humbled to have been blessed to play such a seminal role in the saving and sharing of Father’s legacy and the Sacred Name. Even the few who have chosen to interpret so much “Light, Love and Wisdom” in a negative way should be grateful to us because – truth be known – they would have had no one to criticize . . . nothing to whine about . . . and even no one to bitch to – IF we had not done all of this “Great Work” ! : - ( : - )

We shut down the Source Foundation because (15 years - or was it 45 years ? - later) it is time to do other things with our lives.

Father gave us a Hokum (a Spiritual directive): “To Use, Preserve and share the Sacred Name of God” ! Father “Shared the Sacred Name” everywhere. He considered that to be his signature destiny.

Again, it has been a humbling experience to do this “Great Work” ! We cherish it and are honored to continue to do our best to fulfill Father's Hokum !

It was 1971, a time that an explosion of Consciousness . . . manifesting in cults, families, communites, communes, and The Source Family. By day, we served organic cuisine to such luminaries of John Lennon, Julie Christie Frank Zappa and many others at the famed Source Restaurant on Sunset Strip - maybe the nation's first health food restaurant. During the dawn hours (the "Ascending Currents"), in a mansion in the Hollywood Hills, we explored the cosmos through the channeled wisdom of our charismatic leader, Father Yod, and by chanting the Sacred Name of God - which had been here-to-fore hidden from the common man as the Spiritual Elites tried to hold onto their power. Father was an outlandish figure who had 14 “Spiritual wives,” was chauffered in a Rolls-Royce, and fronted the spontaneous rock band Ya Ho Wha 13, now considered by collectors to be one of the most singular, psychedelic bands of all time ! Father immediately began to share the Sacred Name whenever he could . . . saying that "Man needs everything he can get during his time of great need".

A true story that is so dramatic . . .

Even Hollywood could not have scripted it to be more entertaining !

Everything that happens to you . . . Every circumstance and event . . . Is created and designed for your Soul's Growth.